Limits Quotations | Page 2

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That's telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

I'd love to be an award-winning, commercial successful actress! I would love to push myself to the limits as an actress and experiment with playing really interesting women.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

I don't think you should limit what you read.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Know not to revere human things too much.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.